#118: My Mom Suffers from Dementia and Won't Take her Meds • The Work of Byron Katie®

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🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Anne, whose mother is suffering from dementia. To support you to follow along, here is her Worksheet. Let’s do The Work.

Worksheet:

My mom suffers from dementia and won't take her meds.
I want my mom to take her meds. I want her to at least take the antibiotic (for the delusions).
(Advice to my mom:) My mom should help herself to get better, and understand that she needs to take her meds.
(For me to be happy:) I need my mom to stop saying ridiculous things.
Mom is afraid, a hard worker, ridiculous, unreasonable, stubborn, and self-sufficient.
I don’t ever want my mom to refuse to take the medicine again.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the work. My guest today is Anne and her mother
0:11.9	suffers from dementia and the question is does she?
0:16.8	If you have a fear of dementia or know someone with dementia, this works for you.
0:23.2	Hang on, let's take this ride within.
0:29.6	Hello dears, what a privilege to be with here and meet you here today in this community and those
0:35.8	if you new to the work welcome what we do here is the community we sit together as
0:41.8	we discover the cause of our suffering. We identify it and we move it from our head,
0:50.0	but we're thinking and believing from our head to paper and then we question it.
0:56.2	We question it with a very open mind.
0:59.6	And you have a judge your neighbor worksheet honey? Yeah, I do. I do have one. Yeah I do. I do have one. Yeah I was picking up from what you just
1:08.0	said about you know what's the worst thing can happen and then last week I was talking about my mom to you showing signs of
1:17.4	dementia. So I kind of went there what's the worst that can happen and used one of the daily things that go on with
1:25.8	mom or several things a day go on and yeah the worst that could happen at the moment.
1:32.6	She won't take her medicines, she won't take her meds.
1:36.6	Okay, so is that number one on your worst on your work sheet?
1:40.8	Yeah.
1:41.8	Okay, your mom won't take her meds.
1:44.4	What is the situation?
1:47.2	She has dementia and...
1:49.2	She's showing science dementia at the moment she has. She's in and out of delirium.
1:56.2	So she's very confused and having some hallucinations and she's sort of okay and then she's not.
2:06.0	And what does it look like when she's not?
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